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Tuesday, 15 January 2013

18 human heads shipped from Rome held up at Chicago airport

A shipment of 18 human heads, still covered in skin, was held at Chicago O'Hare International Airport by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol.

Customs officials halted the heads for investigation before handing them over to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office.

"We are involved because they can't store them any longer," Tony Brucci, chief of investigations at the medical examiner's
office told ABC News. "We'll be examining the heads in the autopsy room
today, but there is no foul play suspected in the collection of the
heads."

The heads were en route to a research facility near Chicago, but there was a glitch in the paperwork.

"They were all properly preserved and tagged for the purpose of
anatomical study," Brucci said. "The paperwork just isn't properly
done."

Researchers in Rome had been using the embalmed heads but shipped them
to the United States for cremation at a facility near Chicago.

"The crematory has done nothing wrong. In fact, they were just here to
hand all the paperwork over, and we're satisfied everything is on the
up-and-up," Brucci told ABC News. "We are releasing them back to the
crematory soon."

The somewhat grisly discovery apparently wasn't all that unusual.
Doctors, medical facilities and research organizations often ship human body parts, said Brucci. This shipment raised flags because of the paperwork problem.

"This isn't as strange as it sounds," Brucci said. "People ship body
parts to universities and hospitals all the time, we just don't usually
hear much about it."

In 2010, a shipment of up to 60 human heads and parts of heads was seized at an airport in Arkansas.

Those heads were intended for medical training but were stopped in transit because of improper packaging and errors in the paperwork.

The headline almost gave me a mini heart attack, but reading through the whole write-up made me see no cause for alarm. People give out consent for their bodies to be used before they die or dead bodies unaccounted for.

Odes. You think it's like Nigeria where ppl have disgusting ways? The heads are for medical research. If they have the consent of the families or even the ppl themselves, you think they'd use it? Pls sit your ignorant and illiterate asses down. How do you think autopsies are carried out? Or medical mysteries are solved? Talking 'bout "what for?" Awon olodo.

@kass babs; you're getting it wrong.unlike here in Nigeria where u hear stories of dig-ups & thefts happening in cemetaries, in developed countries some people actually volunteer to donate their bodies or parts for reasearch when they are dead.δ story says "complete paperwork"

linda dont mind them,,becos our people ae blinds and was still blinds to to see all today,,how can the fools believed that the romans that help brings out christianity in the world today and englands that help africans and nigerians to stop killing twins and bring christinity in nigeria far back,will still helping them till today__?be wiser my people,,from swiss,,becos nigeria is a blinds wiser nation on earth

the difference between oyibo and naija is when they want to do something, they perfect it....don't rule out foul play but they would have backed it up with perfect paperwork and failsafes. If Clifford Orji was an Oyibo guy he would have been Dr. Clifford Orji with full clearance to handle human parts affording him a chance at plausible deniability.

Über Morgén is taking place and you guys are here spitting rubbish lyrics...ever heard of Cryosurgery? Them go plant a person's head on another person's body through cryosurgery to see if it can grow...Nigerians Wake up from your slumber...The Whites are deceiving you guys again and again...Mr Brucci is a Liar!

What's na wah oh,please take time to read the content of the headline before rushing to the comment section,this is not even supposed to be news but because of our festish attitudes,its becoming something big,we need to wake up sha,or else we will never move forward,the only civilization I see in Nigeria right now is the entertainment industry,after that the rest is zero,we need to change the way we think,

What's na wah oh,please take time to read the content of the headline before rushing to the comments section,this is not even supposed to be a news but because of our fetish attitudes, it's becoming something big,we need to wake up sha,or else we will never move forward,the only civilization i see in Nigeria at the moment is the entertainment industry,after that the rest is zero,we need to change the way we think.

Because na for oyibo ship they see the heads thats why it is not big deal. Na for laboratory works. If it was a black man's ship then it would haven been for rituals or for a cannibal's consumption. Na so e dey be.

ahhhsmhpple re STUPID shaaaaow do u tnk medical doctors learn in school???in different schools in different parts of the world a part of the human body is given to each student depending on the topic discussed.i cant bliv there re still some foolish pple even in our modern day, its too bad.cadaver is different from human head...just imaginetrue true AWON OLODO!!!!!!